There is value in long years of obscurity, if one doesn't go insane or suicidal, in that, simply because nobody is looking, the habit of fooling around and trying things out gets ingrained. — Jules Olitski Copy Share Image
In the bedroom darkness I may visualise a way of making a painting. I can see it - if I do this and this and that and this, my God! Why haven't I seen this until now? I can hardly… — Jules Olitski Copy Share Image
What I would like in my painting is simply a spray of colour that hangs like a cloud, but does not lose its shape. — Jules Olitski Copy Share Image
In the bedroom darkness I may visualise a way of making a painting. I can see it - if I do this and this… — Jules Olitski Copy Share Image
When the conception of internal form is governed by edge, color appears to remain on or above the surface. I think, on the contrary,… — Jules Olitski Copy Share Image
I worked like a crazyman. I worked day and night, often days and nights at a time - without sleep. Gallons of coffee kept… — Jules Olitski Copy Share Image
Decisions are being made a mile a minute while you're making the work, and it has to come out of experience and vision. — Jules Olitski Copy Share Image
I think of color as being seen in and throughout, not solely on the surface. — Jules Olitski Copy Share Image
Alas, all too often, the dream turns into a mud puddle. I am left looking at a disaster. What to do! Keep working. I… — Jules Olitski Copy Share Image
Color in color is felt at any and every place of the pictorial organization; in its immediacy - its particularity. Color must be felt… — Jules Olitski Copy Share Image
There is value in long years of obscurity, if one doesn't go insane or suicidal, in that, simply because nobody is looking, the habit… — Jules Olitski Copy Share Image
I think of painting as possessed by a structure... but a structure born of the flow of color feeling. — Jules Olitski Copy Share Image
